Convenors: Tom Carter-Brookes (Keele University), Alex Heffron (Lancaster University), Veronica White, (University of Exeter)

The green agricultural transition in the UK is at a fractious, contested, and pivotal moment. Post-Brexit changes to agri-environmental policies have yet to realise significant success in minimising the environmental impact of British agriculture and have led to farmers’ protests across the UK. While much of the UK’s net zero plans rely on support from rural (and farming) communities, reactionary groups have exploited farmers’ feelings of uncertainty, frustration, and lack of trust in the government to promote anti-net zero sentiments. The notion of a just transition is key to any future green transition in UK agriculture, yet how this transition can be realised, and what a “just future” even looks like, remains unclear. 

This session invites contributions from research which explores the possibilities, threats, opportunities, limitations of, and resistances to green agricultural transitions within the UK. We welcome submissions from a range of geographical and interdisciplinary positions across all career stages and especially encourage ECRs to submit ongoing research. Themes include but are not limited to: 

· Farmers’ perspectives on climate change and the green transition 

· The role of experiential knowledge in achieving a just transition in agriculture 

· Farmers’ protests and the attempted co-option of these protests by reactionary groups 

· Policy or financial barriers to agricultural transition 

· Visions for a “just future” of farming 

This session invites 15-minute, in-person presentations. For consideration, please send a title, 250-word abstract, and your full contact details and affiliations to Tom Carter-Brookes (t.n.brookes@keele.ac.uk) by 20 February. We aim to reply by 27 February.